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CAPSICUM BACCATUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Capsicum baccatum mean?
• CAPSICUM BACCATUM (noun)
The noun CAPSICUM BACCATUM has 1 sense:
1. plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers
Familiarity information: CAPSICUM BACCATUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Plant bearing very small and very hot oblong red fruits; includes wild forms native to tropical America; thought to be ancestral to the sweet pepper and many hot peppers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bird pepper; Capsicum baccatum; Capsicum frutescens baccatum
Hypernyms ("Capsicum baccatum" is a kind of...):
capsicum; capsicum pepper plant; pepper (any of various tropical plants of the genus Capsicum bearing peppers)
Holonyms ("Capsicum baccatum" is a member of...):
Capsicum; genus Capsicum (chiefly tropical perennial shrubby plants having many-seeded fruits: sweet and hot peppers)
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